Barack Obama Just Made A Big Speech About Human Trafficking — Here's What He Said

Condemning the "outrage of human trafficking" Tuesday,
President Barack Obama laid out new steps that
his administration will take to combat trafficking in the U.S.
and overseas during his remarks to the Clinton Global
Initiative.

"I'm talking about the injustice, the outrage of human
trafficking, which must be called by its true name; modern
slavery," Obama said. "It is barbaric and it is evil and it has
no place in a civilized world."

The president's remarks differed markedly from Mitt Romney's CGI address Tuesday morning,
which laid out the Republican candidate's foreign aid platform.
By contrast, Obama largely set aside electoral politics, opting
instead to play to the audience of humanitarian donors and
Clinton-philes by discussing an issue that is a cause celébrè for
his host, former President Bill Clinton.

Obama also took advantage of his position as an incumbent, using
his CGI appearance to announce executive orders to strengthen
prohibitions against the use of forced labor by federal
contractors, and to increase assistance for anti-trafficking
training for law enforcement, transit officials, and
educators.

"We cannot ask other nations to do what we are not doing
ourselves," Obama said. "American tax dollars must never, ever be
used to support the trafficking of human beings. We have zero
tolerance, we mean what we say, and we'll enforce it."